From: Michael Garriss <mgarriss@...>
Date: 2003-08-07T01:15:27+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question from a smalltalker

Dave Thomas wrote:

> Lyle Johnson wrote:
>
>>
>> You may be right. I haven't used IntelliJ or Eclipse either, but I'm 
>> assuming that they work with a project-based approach, where a 
>> "project" is a collection of a particular set of source files and 
>> build a database of classes and methods based on those. And we'd need 
>> to do something similar for Ruby.
>
>
>
> I agree that IDEs are a great environment for some folks. But just for 
> balance I'd point out that it's possible to write decent sized 
> applications without a class browser and refactoring tools. My biggest 
> Ruby app so far has 460 classes, and when I need to refactor a method 
> name I find "grep-find" very usable.
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Dave


Although I can't test it in my current enviroment, I believe that ctags 
works on ruby too.  Sure it's a bit dumb (ctags) but combined with vim 
or emacs it can be quite useful.

Michael Garriss